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When I started my weight loss goals anew for the zillionth time, I had already eyed the end of November as a possible trouble spot. The week before Thanksgiving, I was to go to Atlanta for a national conference. Then, of course, comes Thanksgiving, a holiday where your average meal is 2,500 calories. I went into this two week stretch weighing 234. My honest goal: not weigh 240 when I got out of it.
It is so hard to eat right on the road for two main reasons:
1) You are eating out basically every meal
2) Social drinking is fun, but does nothing for your weightloss goals.
What can I say, I enjoy a good Old Fashioned. One of the main reasons for my success thus far has probably been cutting way back on alcohol (one drink per week). In Atlanta....well, that changed.
I did work out while down there, getting on my hotel's exercise bike and elliptical. But, still, I got back from that weighing 236.
Thanksgiving did much of the same, despite a devotion to my in-laws' treadmill. I came back from that at 238.
Today though, I got back on my own elliptical and will start again. After all, the main thing I've noticed throughout this process is that weight loss is not linear. You'll always go up and down with weight, sometimes throughout the day. And while I "cheat" and only log the lowest weight I can in Lose It, I've learned to not let the ups and downs get to me.
(For the record, I did log in 238.)
The other thing that I have going for me is a couple of goals, and they are in sight...
~Lose a tenth of my original body weight by the end of the Semester. I originally weighted 257.2. A tenth of that would bring me down to 231.5. It'll be close, but I should be able to get there by the time the semester ends on Dec. 19.
~My Lose It goal is 215. I have been losing two pounds per week. If I can keep that up, I will get there in 12 weeks. That's early February. It seems like a long ways off, but...12 weeks if I maintain pace! This is also the weight I want to be at before I resume running (probably on a treadmill, because of the weather). Since this started out as a running blog, I cannot wait to get back to that.
~My overall goal is 200 pounds. At two pounds per week, I get there the first week of April. Plus, maybe the snow will be gone (one can hope) and I can run outside. Under 20 weeks away!
These seem like a long ways off, but I've tried to frame this as a lifestyle change. I'm not trying to get to 200 pounds because I want to throw back double cheeseburgers again. I'm doing this to be healthy for a long time to come.
With that on the line, who can let a two week hiccup stop them?
